Fans paint town black and orange

At Seabright Beach in Santa Cruz, Connie Bertuca and her husband noticed that a peace sign of planted vegetation, made last year to commemorate the 10th anniversary of the Sept. 11 attacks, has been converted to a giant baseball.

And Monday, reader E. passed a sign in the window of Bird & Beckett Books that pretty much summed up the mood of the week in this very orange and very blue (for Democrats, not Detroit) city: “Closing early this afternoon. Go Giants. Go Obama.”

More glimpses of fandom:

— Wednesday’s win was big for the Giants, but good for the San Francisco Police Department, too. Kudos to Sgt. Gerald Darcy of the Tenderloin station, whose “God Bless America” well-honored those amber waves of grain, but that was only the beginning. A little later, fans were delighted by the Jumbotron sight of two officers from Central Station, boogying and singing along with Steve Perry from Journey on “Lights” (“When the lights go down in the city” … )

— We loved the deluge. My orange cap got splattered with raindrops on the way out of Wednesday’s romp, and I saw more than a couple of pairs of orange rubber galoshes (and after Monday’s damp win, Carla Hashagen wondered why no story was headlined “Joy in Mudville”).

— Writer Robert Mailer Anderson bare-handed a foul ball Wednesday, handed it to his daughter, Frances, and lifted her up to display it, to much applause. He’s relishing the props of his son, Dashiell, watching at home: “That was Daddy who caught it!”

— There was a full house at City Arts & Lectures for Nick Hornby, but when interviewer Judson True announced the score at the beginning of the program, a few folks yelled from the audience that they were planning to watch on TiVo and didn’t want to know.

— San Francisco Director of Protocol Matthew Goudeau has been tweeting the monkey – news of a female Francois Langur monkey born at the San Francisco Zoo during the playoffs – all over his universe. By Wednesday, the Giants hadn’t lost a game since her birth. The monkey – unnamed, and the zoo is looking for suggestions – has orange hair that will turn black in time, probably like Pablo Sandoval‘s.

— Fan Michael Burris‘ homage, to the tune of “The Candyman,” begins, “Who can hit a home run/ from both sides of the plate/ still play great third/ even when he gains some weight/ the Panda-man can.”

— Michael Tilson Thomas and Joshua Robison were following Wednesday’s action so intently that I made a feeble wave at them but didn’t want to break concentration, mid-inning interruption being as grievous an error as mid-Beethoven interruption. The San Francisco Symphony’s wager with the Detroit Symphony Orchestra concerns goodie baskets (content suggestions are being sought on Twitter and Facebook), but I think, with all due respect, the Series trophy will suffice.

— Fan Steven Eigenberg has a good memory for baseball, for childhood and for money. In 1962, when the Giants were World Series contenders, his father refused to shell out $7.50 a ticket.